World Pledges to Use Innovation to Tackle Environmental Challenges
Nairobi, March 18 – At the close of the Fourth UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, the world laid the groundwork for a radical shift...
Tanzania to Allow Settlers into Protected Areas
Arusha, Tanzania, March 8 - The conservation world was alarmed by a recent directive from the president of Tanzania to open up protected areas...
EAWLS Voices Concern over Reported Forestland Allocations
Nairobi, March 6 2019 - The East African Wild Life Society (EAWLS) and its sub-committee, the Kenya Forests Working Group (KFWG), have noted with...
Wildfires Char Large Swathes of Mt. Kenya Forest
Nairobi, March 1 - Wildfires that are still raging on have charred huge swathes of moorland in the Mount Kenya National Park, local newspapers...
Rare Giant Pangolin Found in Uganda
By Curtis Abraham
Kampala, Feb 20 - As part of its ongoing hidden camera-trap project in Uganda, conservationists working with the United Kingdom’s Chester Zoo’s...
Chinese Woman Jailed in Tanzania for Ivory Trafficking
Nairobi, Feb 20 - A Tanzanian court has convicted Chinese citizen Yang Fenglan, who is popularly known as the “Ivory Queen”, on charges of...
Hope for Nairobi National Park
by Bryony Anderson
Nairobi, Feb 19 - Friends of Nairobi National Park (FoNNaP) is a membership driven, not for profit organisation dedicated to protecting Kenya’s...
UN Secretary-General Nominates Inger Andersen as UNEP Executive Director
Nairobi, Feb 19 - United Nations Secretary-General AntónioGuterres has informed the General Assembly of his intention to appoint Inger Andersen of Denmark as the...
Rare Black Leopard Caught on Camera in Laikipia, Kenya
Nairobi, Feb 13 - A wildlife photographer has caught on camera images of a rare black leopard in the Wilderness Camp in Kenya’s Laikipia...
Guterres Calls for Action as UN Confirms Record Global Warming
Nairobi, Feb 8 - In the wake of data released by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), showing the past four years were...
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